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This page is for the comic adaptions of The Powerpuff Girls.

At the height of its popularity, the show was given it own comic book series in 2000 under the DC Comics label. It appeared in issues #1 and 5 of Cartoon Network Starring before launching its own title. The comic more of less showcased exclusive stories for the girls, but nothing really beyond that like, any usual comic tie in. Interestingly, some of the episodes were adapted from the comics themselves (Squirrelly Burly, the first issue, became the season five episode Stray Bullet for example). It also worked in reverse as well when the TV crew didn't have the resources to animate certain episodes (Deja View, for example).

The comic series ended in 2006, though the girls were transplanted in the CN Block Party comic until that eventually ended in 2009 when DC cancelled their kids line.

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Four years later, in 2013, IDW signed a deal with CN to make new comics off a few of their past shows, and naturally, The Powerpuff Girls was one of those selected. Unlike the last comic, these have multi-issued storylines. The first six issues deal with Mojo Jojo wanting to be a normal chimp, and the villains turning good (or have they?). The IDW series also gained the rights to the DC made comics and re-released them under Powerpuff Girls Classic. The PPG are also participants in IDW's Cartoon Network Super Secret Crisis War.

In 2015, the girls were given a spin-off mini-series subtitled "Super Smash-Up" in which the girls visit other fellow Cartoon Network characters.

Not surprisingly with the 2016 revival, a comic book based on that series was soon announced.

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The Cameo: The Rowdyruff Boys have their own stories in issues 1, 2, 4 and 6 of Cartoon Network Action Pack. The Powerpuff Girls have cameos in two of those stories.

In "Everything Must Go" (issue #48), Crow T. Robot can be seen amidst the wares of Mojo Jojo's yard sale.

Continuity Nod: In "Five Green Vandals" (issue #16), Bubbles brings up Buttercup's crush on Gangreen Gang leader Ace, much to Buttercup's irritation. Issue #30's "Monkey See, Monkey Dough" has Bubbles bringing up Mojo's plan from the movie (the comic adaptation of which was two months earlier).

Crossover: A 2000 special publication put out by Cartoon Network featured a story where the girls meet Scooby-Doo and the gang.

Great Gazoo: Issue #65 introduced the Micro-Puffs, tiny sprite versions of the girls from another dimension who show up to merely yank the girls' chains. One story has Blossom actually getting help from Mojo Jojo in defeating them. Considered canon in that all Micro-Puffs stories were written by Amy Rogers, head writer for the show.

Halloween Episode: Issue #30's "Trick Or Beatings" and issue #67's "Halloween Hiding" (which featured a Where's Waldo? two-page spread that entreated readers to find where each member of the Gangreen Gang was hiding at a Halloween party).

HeelFace Turn: Mojo attempts one in "Monkey Business" (issue #67) as he goes legit and opens his own restaurant. After too many inadvertent sabotages by the girls, Mojo goes back to crime.

Hero with an F in Good: In "Going Squiggly" (issue #14), The Amoeba Boys give up crime and decided to become heroes. They stop Mojo from attacking Townsville Hall... by blowing it up with dynamite, which causes a chain reaction that destroys most of Townsville. Blossom even tells them that they're much more dangerous as good guys.

Look Ma, I Am on TV!: The story "Drama-O-Rama" (issue #48) has Sedusa staging a reality TV show throughout Townsville, knowing that everybody—even the girls—will be mugging for the cameras so much that she'll be able to rob Townsville blind.

Precision F-Strike: Two story titles: "Hell Toupee" (issue #16also counts as an Incredibly Lame Pun), and "Helliday" (issue #29). Also, in "Shutter Thug" (issue #11), Blossom says "Oh...dam" after said structure collapses on said villain. And finally in "Trick Or Beatings" (#31), the girls are laying a smackdown on the Gangreen Gang on Halloween. Blossom, dressed as a witch, originally had the line "Prepare to be witch-slapped!" before it was changed to the kid-friendly line of "Prepare to be bewitched" in the final version.

Pro Wrestling Episode: Issue #18, "The Trouble With Bubbles," has a monster caterpillar in a lucha libre motif. He turns into a monster butterfly after Blossom and Buttercup wrapped him up in adhesive tape he turned into a cocoon. Where was Bubbles, exactly? She ran away from home after everyone heaped scorn upon her for not helping capture the caterpillar (she was protecting a little butterfly from getting its wings wet).

The Power of Love: In "Buttercup's Boyfriend" (issue #2), Him gives a boy whose romantic advances to Buttercup were spurned a belt, with a buckle that transmits rays that make people hate. The ray hits Bubbles, but she's so full of love that the ray shorts circuits her and knocks her unconscious. Blossom and Buttercup verbally tell Bubbles they love her to wake her up.

RockPaperScissors: The Amoeba Boys win Townsville from the Mayor in issue #23, "Amoeba Las Vegas". The girls intervene, as Bubbles challenges them to a game of Rock Paper Scissors and wins with Rock to the Amoebas' Scissors.

Continuity Nod: During issue 5, Bubbles remarks about having one of her pigtails turned to meat, which actually happened in the pilot.

Also, Steve the Monster from the TV episode Super Zeros returns in issues 7 & 8, with a very important role.

Didn't Think This Through: Mojo Jojo actually says the name of this trope at the end of the comic's first arc, when he plans to be hidden in his space pod for weeks until he's ready to attack Townsville again.. and realizes that he forgot to install a bathroom.

HeelFace Turn: This happens during the first storyline where the villains seemed to have turned a new leaf. It's subverted, however, as it shows that it was all a plot by Him. Though this may change with some indications from Fuzzy.

Mind Manipulation: How Him causes the Gangreen Gang, Sedusa, Princess, and Fuzzy Lumpkins to briefly become nice to the Girls, only to remove it to cause the villains to go back to being bad.

Status Quo Is God: Come on, do you really think Mojo Jojo would stay a unmutated chimp, or give up evil for long?

2016 series

Stand Alones

Growling Gut: In one of the 2016 comics, Buttercup's stomach grumbles while she's looking for something to eat while watching Space Towtruck.

Time Tie

Bureau of Bad

Rogues-Gallery Transplant: Apparently the Girls have dealt with enemies from Dexter's Laboratory's Justice Friends series seeing as Doctor Diablos, Rasslor, She-Thing, Comrade Red, and Von Hellen were present in the Bureau of Bad.

Not only do the original villains return but we see villains from Dexter's Laboratory's Justice Friends series in there as well.

You can also see Samurai Jack on a billboard in the first issue and two characters that look like Fred and Barney on a monitor that the girls are beating up as well.

Whole Plot Reference: The whole mini-series is pretty much akin to Batman'sAlmost Got Im plot in which the villains recount tales where they came close to beating the girls in order to see who's the best one among them to lead. Princess (Issue One), The Fashionistas (Issue Two) and Mojo (Issue 3) as the three spotlights in this case.

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